How to Become a Blogger?

Do you have a roadmap with you of your blogging journey? Do you exactly know where you are heading and what you will after a certain period of time? Okay let’s ask you this way, do you know how you could become a successful blogger, is there any way through which you can learn how far you are from your dream destination and how you can be there?

Lucky you, because now you can get answers of all these questions, Gideon and Yaro are back with their mastermind The Roadmap to Become a Blogger.

If you haven’t set up your blog yet, go to this site where Gideon Shalwick takes you through ten videos that show you how to set up an optimized WordPress blog

Become a Blogger -Videos

While you are there, make sure you opt-in for the ”Roadmap to Become a Blogger” report, which Gideon and Yaro Starak has created. It’s also free, but don’t let that fool you, it’s packed with great content starting with a guide to successful blogging based on blogging system. The second half of the Roadmap is particularly important as it takes you through a series of techniques we call the ”X-Factor”. X-Factor techniques combine multimedia with social media to help your blog stand out from the crowd.

It’s tough nowadays to build a blog that succeeds because you need to do more than the average person does. That’s why the X-Factor techniques are critical. Once you read the report you can ask yourself whether you are doing anything to give your blog an X-Factor. From the Roadmap report you will learn the two key concepts:

1. The step-by-step “formula” that Yaro Starak used to create his amazingly successful blog.
2. Thirteen X-Factor strategies that you can implement immediately to put your blog into super drive.

YOU CAN GRAB YOUR COPY OF THE REPORT HERE -Its FREE!!!

Grab OIO Publisher WordPress Premium Plugin for Free

This is one heck of an offer you can’t afford to miss; I know you love to have this powerful weapon OIO Publisher in your arsenal. Now this is the best time to fix it in your blog because now you can now grab it for free (Well almost).

Let me tell how get it for free. This authoritative ad manager is a WordPress Plugin focuses on maximizing your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space.  It has made my life easy as I now have complete control over my advertising, with fully automated sales.

• The original Price of this WordPress Plugin is $47
• I will get $10 Discount if you will use Coupon Code MIDSUM-SHANKS
• Plus you will get $37 “AdSense Business In-A-Box” for free.

Just email me the confirmation mail for the above purchase and I will send you this awesome “AdSense Business In-A-Box” package to help you build a better web business and make more money.

Here is how OIO Publisher benefits you:

• Complete control over your advertising, with fully automated sales
• Make money from your websites whilst saving valuable time
• Keep 100% of your revenue, forget middleman commission
• Sell all forms of ads, and even your own digital products
• Run 3rd party ad networks alongside your own ads
• Gain exposure through free ad marketplace

This is one WordPress Plugin you must have if you are serious about making money online.Now let’s tell you something about “AdSense Business In-A-Box” profit package.

AdSense Business In-A-Box is a collection of a whopping 155 AdSense-ready websites, complete with multiple keywords and articles for each website. Each site is already optimized so that you can start making an AdSense income immediately. The AdSense Business In-A-Box is a 4 volume collection of a whopping 155 AdSense ready web sites, almost 70megs zipped. It’s complete with multiple articles for each web site, keys words and each site is already optimized so that you can start making an AdSense income immediately. A completely Plug and Play Solution.

So it’s a complete cool offer. But before you jump to snatch it I wish to tell you that I am using OIO publisher, it’s a great money making tool to have that’s why I’m recommending it but I haven’t use “AdSense In-A-Box”  package so I don’t have experience how it works, but since its free as bonus then there is no harm trying it.

Get Your OIO Publisher Now!

Make Sure you use Coupon Code MIDSUM-SHANKS. Mail me the confirmation mail for the above purchase and I will send you this awesome “AdSense Business In-A-Box” package.

This Offer is upto 30th June 2009, So hurry!!

Free Traffic-Getting SEO WordPress Plugin from Jeff Johnson

The important thing which most of the bloggers fails to manage is Blog Traffic. You can have a great blog design, write great contents, but still may have experience with no traffic or no readers for your blog, you always wonders how people gets tons of traffic from search engine giant like Big Daddy Google.

Would you like to try some “Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin” for WordPress? I’m sure you would and I recommend you should definitely give it a try. I know you have tested various means and ways to increase traffic and failed miserably. Try this one, It works.

Lucky, we have Jeff Johnson who has decided to give you his Traffic-getting SEO Plugin for FREE. It’s his newest free SEO software that you can use to grab more free traffic from the search engines. All you have to do it plug it into your blog and his software does all the rest.

Don’t worry, if you already have a WordPress blog you can simply plug it in and let it work its Traffic-Getting magic. And if you don’t have a blog then Jeff shows you how to install a free one in as little as 2 minutes using a secret “push a button” technology that even the newest of newbies could use. The great thing about Jeff’s brand-new Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin is that it is easier to use and it is 100% free and Installs in minutes.

Grab This Traffic -Getting SEO plugin for FREE

Learn How to Build a Better Blog in Just 31 Days?

They say it only takes five minutes to build a WordPress blog. It’s true, and with just clicking few button you can start your blog on so many free blog sites, yes its true you can start your own blog in just few minutes, and starts writing posts. But then these challenges come in your mind as how you can engage your readers, how to make it popular and how to establish your blog’s brand in blogsphere.

Well as I said you can build a blog in five minutes but how much time it will take to build a better blog. If you ask blogging guru Darren Rowse he will say in 31 days. You must have heard about his latest blogging training book “31 Days to Build a Better Blog“.

Darren needs no introduction; he is regarded in blogsphere as the “Godfather” of professional blogging. Darren runs several blogs and has created many in his long blogging career. In terms of fame, he’s most respected for his work teaching other people how to blog professionally from his Problogger.net blog. He’s got over 80,000 subscribers to his blog about blogging, the largest readership of any blog
in our industry. He’s a true pioneer and as anyone who has met the guy knows, he’s very humble and a ridiculously hard worker.

I’m following Problogger Darren Rowse’s blog Problogger.net since beginning of my blogging vogue and learned a lot from him. Lets se what you can learn from his latest book “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” :-

1.       Intense Training – bloggers setting aside days, weekends or weeks to go through multiple tasks at once

2.       1 Task a Day – the way we designed it – one day at a time

3.       1 Task a Week – bloggers taking their time with the challenge and making the tasks week long tasks

4.       Monthly Cycle – bloggers using the tasks again and again each month as a monthly routine for their blogging.

5.       Occasional Inspirational Resource – bloggers dipping into 31 Days to build a better blog on a more occasional basis – using it on days when they have time or lack inspiration.

Grab your copy of 31 days to build a better blog now.

It’s an action-focused workbook to improve your blog through a 31-day “bootcamp” style training
regime.  It’s not about making money from blogging, the focus is a lesson a day and action activities to go along with each lesson, to make a dramatic improvement to your blog’s overall performance.

Grab your copy HERE.

Learn Internet Marketing from the Professor Shoemoney

Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker is a very well known, self made Internet millionaire. His blog, Shoemoney.com, is hugely popular and driven largely by the personality of Jeremy.  He has done some crazy stuff over the years and he certainly knows a lot about how to make big money online, so you need to listen this guy.

Jeremy just let me know that he made available a 12 week training program that covers all the fundamentals of Internet marketing.

Here is the weekly breakdown of the program -

Week 1: The Beginner’s Guide To Internet Marketing
Week 2: Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products
Week 3: Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches
Week 4: Pay Per Click: How To Earn Cash With Each Click
Week 5: SEO: How To Rank Higher And Increase Traffic
Week 6: Site Creation: How To Build A Site With Zero Programming Knowledge
Week 7: Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales
Week 8: Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand
Week 9: Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability
Week 10: Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures
Week 11: Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners
Week 12: Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

Jeremy was planning on releasing a book, but decided instead to release his lessons through this course, and best of all, he’s giving it away for FREE.

I’ve just signed up for the training, so it really doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie or an oldie to Internet marketing like me. There’s always more to learn, especially from experienced experts like Jeremy.

If you have some time available over the next 12 weeks for some very practical training from
Jeremy, you can sign up for the program here -

GET ShoeMoney Xtreme Internet Marketing Guide

ITS FREE , ABSOLUTELY FREE , NO CATCH

How to Optimize Your Blog for Readers?

The other day one of my friend who was installing a new WordPress blog asked me whether he should activate the setting “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” as given under WordPress Discussion setting options. I immediately advise him not to do so; one must facilitate and give ease to his/her blog readers to convey opinion through comments. I don’t think compulsion of registration before allowing them to comment on your blog serve any purpose, rather I advise him to install couple of plugin which gives ease to blog readers while commenting on posts and also optimize blogs for blog readers.

[1] The Threaded Comments Plugin

This plugin design a threaded style commenting structure for the comments that are made on your blog posts. In other words, this plugin allows you to not only reply to a post on your blog, but also to reply to a reply to a post… and on and on, creating what’s called a threaded, or nested comment collection.

Download WordPress Threaded Comments Plugin

[2] The CommentLuv Plugin

This Plugin help give something back to every single commentator as well as entice them to come back and visit more often by automatically adding a titled link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. It’s done fantastically well with tens of thousands of comments every day receiving a little love.

Download WordPress CommentLuv Plugin

You can see both of these plugin in action on this blog. The best thing is that if you are in top commentators list you can get a DoFollow link to your blog and get some additional traffic.

Do you know some more ways to please your blog commentator? Please discuss in comments below.

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Here is Your Lethal Money Making Tool

Making money from blogging is not easy; people find it really difficult and hard to earn enough money even to payout their monthly internet charges and hosting charges. The reason on the other hand is pretty simple. Your blog is not fitted with some power packed tools which are necessary and makes your blog a money making machine. If you are a regular reader of this blog I always keep on recommending couple of tools which you must fix in your blog to make your blog competitive. These tools will also help you save lots of your valuable time, which is a very crucial factor if you are not a full time blogger like me. Today I’m giving you MaxBlogPress’s Ninja Affiliate.

NINJA AFFILIATE WordPress Plugin

If you are trying to make money by selling ad spaces and writing paid review then you are leaving behind a huge chunk of money on the table. You can actually earn two times more from your blog by promoting affiliate programs. How? You can do so by linking specific keywords in your blog posts into affiliate programs. Getting paid commissions out of the keywords that lead to affiliate links is not a small deal.

Affiliate Marketing is where all these big blogger make huge money. Can you imagine how much impact will that be making to your overall blog income?

How you can make money by promoting affiliate products.

Say you are writing a blog post about WordPress Themes. How about if you write this post and some plugin automatically link keywords like theme or themes to your affiliate program? Now your readers can follow those links and buy the related products and you’ll be the one earning commission out of it.

Ninja Affiliate can do that for you

Well Ninja Affiliate is a WordPress Plugin which can do that for you. All your blog posts that lay idle and all those keywords that you wanted to link can be made affiliate links instantly, that can earn you passive commissions. Within a second you can convert keywords like Themes, plugin etc to your affiliate links. The reason being- you have those keywords already linked with the affiliate link and it is going to stay right there. This means you will be the earning commissions even if someone reads that post after say, 5 months or 8 months. Now, think about all the hundreds of blog posts lying idle on your blog. Don’t you want to earn from them lifelong?

You can see this plugin in action on this very blog. 

Let’s see how it works [for you to make money]

Get your WordPress Ninja Affiliate Plugin Here

How Yaro Starak Look When He Was a Child?

When this question strike to my mind I immediately mail my friend and blogging Master Mind Yaro Starak asking him to send me picture of his childhood and also if he could share couple of words about his sweet childhood memories.

The reason for making such unusual request was that I think readers always wanted to know a little bit about the personal life of their favorite bloggers, their hobbies, their favorite sports the things they love or the thing they hate most etc. That’s why I always insist bloggers to share some stories about themselves with their readers. It always helps to build a relationship with your readers.

He sent me his childhood picture and a note about his babyhood memories. He looks so cute in this picture isn’t?

 

I remember as a child I spent many hours down at the local creek collecting tadpoles. I also had a thing for chasing lizards. Typical boys activities.

-Yaro Starak

Now this cute little boy has become the greatest Blogging Mentor. If you haven’t heard about his Blog Mastermind Program or about his latest Membership Site Mastermind program then I will suggest you to change your name to ADAM and your wife name to EVE.

Yaro Starak made $211,969 while traveling around the world

Yaro made $211,969 while he traveled the planet last year visiting 25 cities in 8 months. He made all this money with a single membership site while traveling around the world.

How you can make at least $100,000 in the next 12 months.

So if you wonder how he made such a huge money here is the answer; we are lucky that Yaro decided to share his secrets and Masterplan of setting up a Membership Site. He has decided to open the doors to his intensive training program on how to launch a profitable membership site to help you earn at least $100,000 in the next 12 months.

Don’t miss Opportunity

Every person who joins Membership Site Mastermind Program within the next 24 hours {of opening this program} will receive one double-pass for two people to attend his live event, valued at $1,997. I Promise that every single penny spend on this program would pay you more then hundred times of it and here are product detail with price.

• Mastermind Premium Membership ($497)
• Blog Mastermind Monthly Subscription ($97)
• Membership Site Mastermind + Blog Mastermind ($297)
• Membership Site Mastermind Course 3-Pay Plan ($297)

ACT NOW

You can join right now at this page (WARNING: it’s a long page, so watch the video Instead if you don’t like long sales pages)

JOIN MEMBESHIP SITE MASTERMIND PROGRAM

It’s a six-week training program. You even get direct access to Yaro with live coaching calls, so if you want to work with this guru of Internet marketing and get personal support, this is a brilliant opportunity. Don’t wait, join today and start your journey towards a $10,000 a month membership site.

WP Super Cache Saved Me

So What You Do When a Big Blogger Links To Your Post?

Well, this morning bring big smile on my face. When I woke up this Sunday morning and checked my BlogLines feed as usual I felt like on cloud seven. I saw that John Chow has a complete post about one of my recent post on big bloggers offices. I’m very excited about it and the reason is very simple, I admire John a lot in fact I started my blogging after reading John chow’s top posts.  

Well John Chow is a big blogger. If you are a Make Money Online blogger and still don’t know who is John then please send me one of picture, I will use it in my post about Human Evolution. J. John has a strong RSS base of 47K readers, with 29k twitter follower, Technorati ranking of top 2k blog. Feedburner says his RSS circulation of 47k gets hits around 66k so you can imagine if he links to your blog/posts then how much heavy traffic you will receive towards your blog. Imagine the thing when your blog is not hosted on a dedicated server.  

So the first thing I need to do is to make my blog compatible to bear “The John Chow Effect”.

WP Super Cache

Well if you get a chance something like the one I explained above then the first thing you must do is to install this WordPress WP Super Cache Plugin to bear the immediate traffic load towards your blog.

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After an html file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP.

So this plugin handle instantaneous traffic load terrifically. Moreover WP Super cache plugin makes your blog go faster. 

Time line your old popular post.

Lots of first time visitors would also like to check other posts you wrote recently on your blog, so I have seen most the blogger do this, they timeline their old popular posts to current dates so that they appear on front page chronically, if you ask me I don’t think it’s a better idea, specially when your permalink contain months and year and if you try this lots of links to your old posts will turn out to be broken.  So better you should not try this if your blog’s permalink is like mine.

Well that’s I can advise you, please share your story about linking of your blog by biggies in comment below and if also share if you have some other suggestions to implement in this situation. 

Get US $10 Discount on Purchase of OIO Publisher Plugin

If you have missed out the special discount offer opportunity last month of buying OIO Publisher WordPress Plugin used for selling Text Ads, Banner ads, in content ads and paid review on your blog then don’t worry because I have bigger discount offer this month for you.

Now you can get US $10 Discount if you use my following coupon code.

INDIGO-SHANKS

This special offer is for Shanker Bakshi dot Com Readers; they can buy this Wonderful Plugin which Cost US$47 for just US$37 only. Using special coupon code mentioned above. This special coupon code is valid for the purchases made during the month of May 2009 Only.

Here are some cool features of OIO Plugin

• OIO can be used as a standalone platform, or as a WordPress plugin
• Sell text ads, banner ads, in-content ads and paid reviews
• Sell custom items; from custom ads to digital downloads
• Entirely automated; purchases and expirations all handled automatically
• Your own ad server; JavaScript output lets you display ads on any website
• Break ads into zones; display ads easily over multiple sites
• Click and impression tracking; weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers
• No empty ad slots; show your own default ads until slotsare purchased
• Ad status management; approve / reject / expire / renew / validate ads
• Setup your own affiliate program
• Easily extend functionality; modules let developers go further
• Integrated marketplace; let us help you advertise your ads

Grab your copy of OIO Publishers plugin now

Don’t forget to use coupon code INDIGO-SHANKS for availing US$10 Discount.

WordPress.com is now WP.com

Yahoo again treats Automattic by giving it much needed wp.com domain. Ma.tt is pretty excited about it.

He was keep playing with this domain the whole day long checking whether the redirection from wp.com pointing to WordPress.com is working fine or not.

Yes it’s true, Automattic is now the proud owner of WP.com, which we acquired from our buddies over at Yahoo! We’ve been using WP.com as internal shorthand for this site for years now, and ever since we figured out four or five years ago that Yahoo had that domain (as opposed to the Washington Post or something) we’ve been doing our best to get it, a journey that culminated in ultimate success a few days ago. (Ma.tt)

It also means bloggers who have their blogs hosted on WordPress.com and having URL like myblog.wordpress.com can now have much easy and simple URL like myblog.wp.com. ( Automattic has not yet confirmed it though)

What should he do with WP.com?

Matt has asked for your answer to put it into the Automattic idea machine and crunch something out at the end.

How to take Screenshots of Complete Web Pages

Tell me how you do it. Well if you google this phrase in results you will get several software made for this purpose. It seems that they are free shareware, but when you visit these pages you will surprise to see that there are people who are charges many dollars for such simple software.

There is Firefox Add On to solve this purpose.

That’s why they call Firefox the best internet browser. Install Screengrab Firefox Add On and take screenshots of a complete web page. just right-click a page to bring up the context menu and look at the options under “Screengrab” point the location where you wish to save the file, BINGO.

It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.

FireFox Add On Screengrab in Action.

Special Discount on OIO Publisher Plugin For You

This blog is fitted with couple of paid WordPress Plugins like MBP Ninja Affiliate which automatically converts keywords into affiliate links. The other one is OIO Publisher which control private ad sales and affiliate ads on this blog. It made my life easy.

Here are some cool features which OIO Plugin offer

* OIO can be used as a standalone platform, or as a Wordpress plugin
* sell text ads, banner ads, in-content ads and paid reviews
* sell custom items; from custom ads to digital downloads
* enitrely automated; purchases and epxirations all handled automatically
* your own ad server; javascript output lets you display ads on any website
* break ads into zones; display ads easily over multiple sites
* click and impression tracking; weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers
* no empty ad slots; show your own default ads until slots are purchased
* ad status management; approve / reject / expire / renew / validate ads
* setup your own affiliate program; reward people for selling your ads
* easily extend functionality; modules let developers go further
* integrated marketplace; let us help you advertise your ads

There is this special offer for Shanker Bakshi dot Com Readers; they can buy this Wonderful Plugin which Cost US$47 for just US$39 only. Use following special coupon code to avail this discount:

SPRING-SHANKS

You will receive an $8 discount when using this coupon. This coupon is valid during the month of April only

And if you like to see it in action on your blog too you can purchase it from HERE and do remember to use the coupon code SPRING-SHANKS to avail US$8 discount.

You can test this plugin HERE

The Ethical Bribe to Increase Twitter Followers

A little strange to believe at first but Tim Ferris has come up with this crazy idea to buy Twitter Follower at US$ 3 per follower. I mean he has this noble cause behind this and call this offer as “Tweet to beat”. Here is what he has to say:

This is “Tweet to Beat”, a follow-up experiment to LitLiberation, which was a campaign by bloggers and their readers, and CEOs and their employees, to spread the power of literacy worldwide. I’m in Vietnam with readers right now to visit two of the schools. With zero financing or hard costs, this model ended up raising more than $250,000 in less than a month, 3x more than Stephen Colbert during that same period.

He explains:

For every new Twitter follower in the next two weeks, I will donate $1 to DonorsChoose.org, and an anonymous supporter will match $2, for a total of $3 to U.S. public school classrooms per follower.

Not only this, Ferris is also doing a competition where you can win a MacBook Pro head over to this post here for more information.

I do follow him.  Do you?

What Lessons a Blogger Can Learn From the Movie Slumdog Millionaire?

Eight Academy awards winner movie Slumdog Millionaire is adoption of Vikas Swaroop Best selling novel “Q & A”. Directed by Danny Boyle the story moves around the street boy Jamal who is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati) hosted by Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) in which he won 20 Million Rupees.

Well for me I think there is a lot that you can learn from this movie but if you wish to associate this movie with your blogging experience here are the three basic things that you can study from it.

[1] Get your answer from your experience:

The boy in the movie knows all the answer because he has already gone in his tough journey of life through various situations where he learned the answers to those questions.Life teaches us every moment, it’s all on us how we grab that knowledge and use it for our purpose to become a successful person.

So next time before you ask anyone any sort of question try to solve it or clutch the answer by yourself. There is nothing that you can’t do if somebody else is already doing it.

[2] You are required to know exactly what is needed at that time, it dose not matter if you don’t know about hundred other things.

There are four kinds of persons you can see in a society;

One who don’t know but he knows that he don’t know. (That’s a smart one)

One who don’t know but also don’t know that he don’t know (That’s a stupid guy)

One who knows and also know that he knows (That’s super smart)

One who knows but don’t know that he knows (That’s a careless freak)

SO better you first know what exactly you know and what you don’t, confusing, let’s say it in other words; that’s you must know what your strength and weaknesses are. Like the guy in the movie. Don’t mass-up with a thing on which you have low or little knowledge (lets phone a friend)

[3] Take the hard way to success

Though winning a quiz show and becoming a millionaire seems pretty easy way, but the boy struggle all his life to reach to that level. Unlike his brother he chooses the tough hard but honest way to the success.

There are no short cuts to success, don’t confuse yourself with those happy go lucky stories, there is only one thing which always pays and that’s hard work and nothing else.

Seven years back when I arrived in this beautiful city of India “chandigarh” there were only few bucks in my pocket, I was not even able to afford one meal per day but today after all these years of hardship I have every thing which is necessary to make a living, a happy family, a car, a cozy bed almost every luxury of life (owning a house is still big dream in India). The only thing in my mind was this faith that if I will work hard there is nothing that will stop me to reach where I am right now.

Question for you

Tell me how you like the movie Slumdog Millionaire and what lesson you learnt from the movie (if any)

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